Fintech: Good and Bad News for Inclusive Sustainable Finance

This presentation, FINTECH: Good and Bad News for Inclusive Sustainable Finance, will explore issues surrounding the rapid deployment of computerized electronic platforms, cryptocurrencies and algorithms now disrupting legacy financial firms and their models.

Good News: this disruption was long overdue and welcome where it overturns inefficient, inequitable, over-priced services, democratizing lending, investment, banking, payments, remittance and widens easy availability of transactions. Widespread adoption of Blockchain-based distributed ledgers offer closer monitoring of financial ethics and performance. Bad News: this electronic, information-rich disruption of legacy finance ranges from algorithmic high-frequency trading (HFT) we explored for the UN Inquiry (2015) to the rapid co-option and buyouts of companies in the FINTECH 100 by the big legacy banks; the excessive run-up in pre-IPO valuations, focusing on big wins, short-term profits – evidence of the same excesses and unsustainable practices needing reform. Even the ingenious market-based reform in IEX’s platform’s technological designed “speed bump” which levels the playing field for investors also can be subverted to extort fees by unscrupulous firms. Vulnerability, internet and spectrum capacity as well as security issues need attention.

While FINTECH offers so many opportunities for reforming and democratizing finance, the race is on to own and control these disruptive firms and their profits. Steering FINTECH firms toward globally inclusive, sustainable development goals as in the UN’s SDGs must now be built in. Ethical standards are key in optimal systemic design. How best to measure their social and environmental impacts, performance metrics and accounting, and monitor prudential architecture at global and national levels? How can we help design FINTECH for inclusive sustainable finance and markets?

Innovate Finance will deliver a webinar focussed on venture
capital investment in FinTech from a transatlantic perspective, bringing together leading international VCs to explore the changing FinTech investment landscape, the perfect startup pitch and what and who to watch in 2018.

Data is the new oil. How can financial services organisations use data to revolutionise their offerings and provide a better customer experience?

Join this panel to find out:

- How can banks help customers put their data to good use? What have we learned from Open Banking and PSD2?
- How can AI and predictive intelligence be used to avoid risks and provide a more seamless experience?
- Challenges with data management and aggregation and how to solve them
- How data analytics is impacting financial services

What does the bank of the future look like? What are the opportunities and challenges that technology brings to the payments ecosystem?

Join this panel where the speakers will discuss:

-How can data make banking more effective for the modern-day consumer?
-What are the latest trends in new payments platforms and models?
-How are different industries like eCommerce, retail, and insurance affected?
-What are the effects of GDPR and Open Banking?
-What does connected financial services look like?
-The security pitfalls that financial institutions need to look out for

The Financial Services industry has a big target on its back when it comes to attacks by cyber criminals. How can financial institutions keep precious customer data safe whilst utilising technology to equip themselves with the tools to prevent fraud and financial crime?

Melisande Mual, Founder at The Paypers, Berit Svendsen, EVP International Business at Vipps

Organisations are often challenged with finding the right balance between innovating and staying secure. How are cutting-edge advancements revolutionising the way we look at identity and authentication?

Join the panel to hear about:

-Understanding the digital identity landscape
-How to avoid drop-off during the verification process
-How developments like biometrics, AI, blockchain can impact identity and data management
-How to adapt and respond to new regulations like PSD2, Open Banking, and GDPR

What does the future of connected commerce look like? The changing need of the customer has meant that the shopping experience is changing and merchants, retailers, and payments companies need to future-proof their offerings.

Join this panel to discover:

-Current landscape and trends in the commerce industry
-How can AI revolutionise the customer experience and help organisations evolve?
-From PoS to multi-channel platforms, how can you provide a frictionless customer experience?
-What are the risk and compliance challenges that need to be at top-of-mind?
-How can we proactively prevent fraud rather than react when the damage has been done?

With rates of card-not-present payment fraud continuing to grow higher every year, payment and data security has never been a higher priority for organizations. Protecting customer data is of utmost importance, especially with governments and regulatory bodies increasingly turning their attention to these issues and producing legislation to implore companies to take additional security measures.

Contact centers are a part of the organization particularly fraught with responsibility, processing mountains of payments and finding themselves to be a favorite target for hackers and fraudsters. Because of this, contact centers face a myriad of laws and regulations governing the way they treat this data, such as the PCI DSS for those taking payments, among many others.

Register now to Semafone for an insightful webinar where you'll learn:

Aaron is a member of the Semafone marketing team, where he regularly contributes to the Semafone blog and authors many types of content around payment security, PCI DSS, and GDPR compliance. He enjoys providing IT practitioners with helpful insights that help them solve problems.

Yair will discuss the biggest compliance risks in the markets with the greatest opportunities (e.g., China, Russia), and offer insights on how to effectively leverage user behavior data to identify bad behaviors.

Innovation has quickly become an overused and distorted word. At Money20/20 Europe expect to cut through the hype, explore what measurements we can use to benchmark innovation and get to the heart of sustainable and commercial step change. A key question which has moved back up the C-Level agenda of established; banks, tech companies and payments companies is:

"How can incumbents deliver meaningful game-changing innovation?"

There are three options available for incumbents, and at Money20/20 Europe we’ll be developing deeper into each one:

1. Can organisations transform their cultures to execute true innovation internally within their organisations? (cultural transformation)

2. Perhaps tech transformation is the way forward, partnering or acquisitions to do so?

3. Or do they need to achieve business model transformation by building something entirely new outside of the organisation?

These options are being heavily debated in boardrooms throughout Europe, with a number of high profile banks recently announcing plans to build brand new subsidiaries. Some of the traditional banks, payments and tech companies are pursuing a few or all of the options while others are sitting on the fence. Which is most effective and why? What are the dynamics at play that determine success for different types of companies? Hear from the leading companies in our industry as they share their incisive insight on the successes but also the failures and the lessons learned.

Women are exposed to more financial risk over the course of their life.

We have a different life trajectory compared to men which exposes us to more financial shock. Women not only have more career interruptions, we work in part-time, temporary or insecure employment and live longer than our male partner.

Despite this women are less engaged when it comes to money and tend to save less and invest less. However report after report states that women want to learn more about money and investing.

So what is going on? And how can women take control of their financial future?

This webinar will outline how women can start to engage around money and what we need to do to build financial resilience. The aim is for the 'money conversation' to become accessible, fun and inspiring. At the same time we want to support women in having courage, clarity and confidence when it comes to money and investing.

The Purse is dedicated to empowering women financially so they can build the life of their dreams. We provide coaching, training, a community and tools so we can all support, learn and grow together.

Loyalty programs are nothing new, but opportunities to leverage them at the in-store and online checkout are. Innovations in payments and banking have ushered in the beginnings of the "open economy" and are bringing exciting new technologies to the market that will change the future of consumer engagement.

Ty Tyree (FIS) and Bruce Parker (Modo) speak with Eric Grover (Intrepid Ventures) on the work they're doing in the payments and loyalty space, and what opportunities they see in the market.

Join in to learn: Who are the major players in the "open economy"?, What are disruptors in the loyalty space doing (both banks, merchants, and payments players)?, What are new ways in which you can engage your end consumers to establish true brand loyalty?, What is the "open economy", and how are we going to see that playing out in the next 5 years?, and What is required in order to continue the "open economy"?

What determines how people pay for their goods and services? How might using cash instead of a debit card reflect your personality? Are you a utilitarian or hedonistic shopper?

This webinar looks at how the way people behave could affect their choice of payment. Dr. Anne Lewis argues that an economic model is not enough to fully predict future consumer payment habits, and social factors have an important influence on whether people reach for notes or cards.

The cashless society has been talked about for decades and with the increased use of digital payments some believe it’s closer than ever. Despite this cash remains a popular method of payment for consumers and businesses, and is forecast to continue to play an important role in the payments landscape for years to come.

Join this session for a discussion on the future of cash. This will include:

· Data and forecasts on cash and non-cash payment methods
· Research on the drivers behind consumer payment behavior
· Analysis on the future of cash – it’s role as both a transactional and continuity method of payment
· Country-specific examples

The presentation will provide an overview of the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, highlight trends in Mass Marketing Fraud and current scams, and discuss alternative measures to disrupting fraudulent operation through public/private partnership.

About the Speaker:
.Keith is a Fraud Analyst with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre's Operational Support Unit. The CAFC is Canada's central repository for data, intelligence and resource material as it relates to fraud. The CAFC commits to providing timely, accurate and useful information to assist citizens, businesses, law enforcement and governments in Canada and around the world. The CAFCis coordinated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Competition Bureau of Canada

Sufficient AML and KYC processes are critical in ensuring banks and FIs can not only protect themselves from being unknowingly involved in financial crime, but they are also integral in having a better understanding of their customers and providing them with a better experience.

Join this panel where our speakers will discuss:

-How can organisations improve existing AML/KYC requirements?
-What are the common mistakes made when it comes to compliance
-Which new technologies can help detect and prevent fraud and ensure FIs stay compliant?
-What are the key compliance issues for the Financial Services industry?
-How can organisations track financial crime with AI?

Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the U.S. Globally, one in 60 online transactions are fraudulent. So, if you fail to catch that fraud, the cost to your business – both reputational and financial – can be catastrophic

PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster and Kevin Trilli, chief product officer at Onfido, discuss the current trends in fraud techniques, and reveal how risk and fraud managers can utilize new technologies to catch them.

Attendees will learn:

- The most common identity document fraud techniques and how to spot them
- The challenges of tackling 3D fraud in digital, 2D environments
- How AI and biometrics are changing the face of online security and access
- Why fighting fraud will require a mix of human and machine expertise

Over the last seven years, the technologies used by call and contact centers to communicate with customers and complete card transactions have changed drastically. Networking methodologies like VoIP have since become widely adopted, while the number of applications organizations employ to process customer information has risen dramatically. For this reason, the PCI SSC recently released their highly anticipated updated “Guidance for Protecting Telephone-Based Card Payments” for the first time since 2011, offering several much-needed clarifications for organizations looking to achieve PCI DSS compliance inside their contact centers.

Join Semafone and Sec-1 Ltd. for this insightful webinar into the most pertinent changes, featuring two of the members of the PCI SSC’s Special Interest Group – Ben Rafferty, Chief Innovation Officer at Semafone, and Wayne Murphy, Senior Security Consultant at Sec-1 Ltd. We’ll cover the following:

• How to avoid scope-creep inside the contact center during PCI DSS compliance
• How Pause and Resume call recording solutions create more problems than they solve
• How most 3rd party services are now in scope for PCI DSS compliance
• How devices that control SIP Redirection are now also in scope

-How to better handle performing client due diligence on an ongoing basis?
-What are the challenges of the traditional AML/KYC procedures?
-What can we expect from the AML Directive that comes into force in June of this year?
-What are the common mistakes FIs make when managing their data?
-How can Machine Learning and automation help?

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